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Arafat
was poisoned, believed from day one: Foundation
Monday September 10, 2012 08:04:00 PM,
Agencies
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Ramallah:
The Yasser Arafat Foundation on Sunday there was “no need” for
more proof the Palestinian leader was poisoned in what appeared to
be a stance against French plans to exhume his body.
“Since the formation of this Foundation, it has forcefully held on
to the fact that Yasser Arafat died abnormally after being killed
by a poison which was unidentified at the time,” news agency AFP
reported quoting from a foundation statement.
“The Foundation does not see a need here for more proof", it
added.
The statement was issued just days after a delegation of French
magistrates said they would travel to travel to the West Bank to
investigate following claims Arafat may have succumbed to
poisoning by the radioactive substance polonium.
No date has been given for the trip which would involve forensic
officers exhuming the body and taking samples for laboratory
testing in an investigation sought by Arafat’s widow Suha.
Speaking to AFP on condition of anonymity, a source from the
Foundation said they would only agree to a further examination of
his body if it was conducted as part of an international
investigation committee.
“If there is an international committee, we will agree to the body
being checked,” he said, without explaining further.
Arafat died in a French military hospital near Paris on Nov. 11,
2004 and French experts were unable say what had killed him, with
many Palestinians subscribing to the belief that he was poisoned
by Israel.
Arafat’s nephew, Nasser al-Qidwa, who heads the Arafat Foundation,
has long insisted that Israel was behind his uncle’s death but a
Palestinian investigation into such allegations ruled out
poisoning, AIDS and cancer.
Last month, French prosecutors opened a murder inquiry into
Arafat’s death after Al-Jazeera news channel broadcast an
investigation in which Swiss experts said they found high levels
of radioactive polonium on his personal effects.
In July, president Mahmud Abbas and Suha Arafat both gave their
consent for samples to be taken from his remains, which are buried
in a mausoleum in the West Bank city of Ramallah.
But some Palestinians feel the French did not do enough to shed
light on the cause of Arafat’s death at the time and they are
pushing for an international probe into the circumstances of his
death.
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